This page has links to downloadable PDF files of activities that can be used to introduce or continue the ideas of biodiversity presented in the INHS Traveling Science Center. The first group of activities can be adjusted for classes of different age groups. The second group of activities is more suitable for junior high and high school classes.
Activities
Aliens, Unwanted Invaders and Biogeography
Aquatic Invertebrates in Still and Flowing Waters
Catch Me if You Can
Grass Anatomy or What's the Rush? A Lesson on Grasses Sedges and Rushes
Grasses and Forbs: A Major Difference
Ice On the Rocks: A Glacier Shapes the Land
Illinois and the World: A Comparison of Biological Diversity
The Key to Them All
A Piece of the Action: Macroinvertebrate Aquarium
Minimarvels
Name That Habitat
Numbers, Numbers, and More Numbers
The Spice of Life: Assessing Species Diversity
What's Disturbing About a Disturbed Wetland
What Is an Insect?
Activities for More Advanced Students
Acid Rain: A Danger to Our Forests?
Biogeography: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
A Mathematical Model for the Forest
A Mathematical Model for the Urban Forest
What a Prairie Is and Isn't
Activity Requiring a Fieldtrip
Get Your Hands and Feet Wet